[Iain]

I love a shop with a good pun for a title as I am sure you all do. Please, share the best ones. I'll start.

Planet of the Grapes (A wine merchant on Oxford St, London)
The Codfather (Fish and Chip Shop, Cardiff)
Pieminister (Pie shop, Bristol)

and my favourite:

Baguetti Junction (Sandwich Shop, Cardiff)

There is another good fish and chip shop one in Cardiff but I can't remember it.

[Toilet & Bowels]

there's a shop on hacjkney road called "bag ally", which i suspect is supposed to be bag alley.

[pantophobia]

there is a coffee shop in Gaithersburg called 'Java the Hut'

the best though is 'Madam's Organ' in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of DC

these are not puns but i have to share two different greasy looking restaurants on Georgia Ave, "Senor Pollo" translated into Mr. Chicken and of course

Wonder Chicken!

[MellySingsDoom]

Endless amounts of sub-KFC shops called "Chick King". See what they did there?

I wonder whether, anywhere in the world, there's a Turkish breads shop called "Pida-Phile"?

[Glice]

Originally Posted by Iain

Pieminister (Pie shop, Bristol)

The pub I have my Friday lunchtime pint in serves pieminister pies. They are very, very good pies.

Bristol also has my very favourite chip shop name ever: The Starchip Enterprise. There used to be one called the Cod almighty, but that was removed - can't remember where that was, somewhere Bristol/ Somerset ways.

There's also my old favourite off-licence: Booze nest. Personal reasons, you understand.

[Danny Himself]

Abra Kebabra
Pizza the Action

[the ikara cult]

I have also seen an abrakebabra, and we should mention the fast food outlet in The League of Gentlemen called "Burger Me"

However, this sign i saw once takes the biscuit.
I walked past a camping shop in Newcastle in about November a few years ago, and there was a picture of William Shakespeare with a speech bubble coming from his mouth, and the speech bubble said:
"Now is the winter of our discount tents".

[screamingskull]

my grandfather used to run this company called Castle that made selotape and packaging materials.

Their slogans were

"you can wrap a parcel with Castle"
and
"there's no hassle with Castle"

[Iain]

Originally Posted by the ikara cult

I have also seen an abrakebabra, and we should mention the fast food outlet in The League of Gentlemen called "Burger Me"

However, this sign i saw once takes the biscuit.
I walked past a camping shop in Newcastle in about November a few years ago, and there was a picture of William Shakespeare with a speech bubble coming from his mouth, and the speech bubble said:
"Now is the winter of our discount tents".

YES. This is the best one yet!

There is a Cod Almighty in Cardiff, I've remembered now. That was the other one I was thinking of.

Someone also told me that there's a halal butchers in Cardiff called Pak Butcher but I'm not sure I believe them.

[Iain]

Originally Posted by Glice

The pub I have my Friday lunchtime pint in serves pieminister pies. They are very, very good pies.

Bristol also has my very favourite chip shop name ever: The Starchip Enterprise. There used to be one called the Cod almighty, but that was removed - can't remember where that was, somewhere Bristol/ Somerset ways.

There's also my old favourite off-licence: Booze nest. Personal reasons, you understand.

Starchip Enterprise is a good one.

I have heard only good things about Pieminister pies but I have yet to taste one. I'll probably be in Bristol at the end of the month so I'll sample one then.

[Savage Clone]

There's a fish place here called Just For The Halibut. Makes me cringe every time I see it.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by pantophobia

the best though is 'Madam's Organ' in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of DC

oh yes. cokehead central! i went there only once, for a friend's bachelor party. loved the debauchery but not the crowd.

i love their mural

 

and their "sorry we're open" sign too

 

Originally Posted by Savage Clone

There's a fish place here called Just For The Halibut. Makes me cringe every time I see it.

ack, that truly is terrible

[Everyneurotic]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

oh yes. cokehead central! i went there only once, for a friend's bachelor party. loved the debauchery but not the crowd.

i love their mural

 

and their "sorry we're open" sign too

 

...

respect man, that's one of the first places the bad brains ever played.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

respect man, that's one of the first places the bad brains ever played.

it's not that kind of place anymore, im afraid. hasn't been in a long time is my guess. a lot of aging drunkards mostly. not pretty.

[Everyneurotic]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

it's not that kind of place anymore, im afraid. hasn't been in a long time is my guess. a lot of aging drunkards mostly. not pretty.

i could've guessed, like that one time like 10 years ago that i went to cbgbs and the whole place was stamped with nu metal band stickers.

it's not the places, but the people who do stuff. still, it's nice to gaze at the ruins of a certain time, anthropology, anyone?

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

it's not the places, but the people who do stuff. still, it's nice to gaze at the ruins of a certain time, anthropology, anyone?

archaeology you mean? well, madam's organ is the place to go for granny sex.

[Everyneurotic]

i meant more like the deduction of a culture thing, if you want to just study the stones and rubble, yeah then go ahead with archeology.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

i meant more like the deduction of a culture thing, if you want to just study the stones and rubble, yeah then go ahead with archeology.

oh you said ruins, i said granny sex

[Everyneurotic]

so what's the science for that called? there certainly is a correlation.

ps: you bolted on our peter sellers conversation the other day.

Soap Opera. It's a laundrette.